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Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets

Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets

Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors at seven museums over the course of five years this book offers an in-depth analysis of heritage museums in Nordic Scandinavian and North American contexts. It investigates how economic realities coupled with the cultural contexts in which museums operate affect how these institutions organize manage and develop their collections to make themselves relevant in society. Once charged with the primary task of educating citizens about their cultural identity and history national museums and heritage organizations are also under pressure to rethink their market demands and meet stakeholders’ increasing interest in growing visitor numbers and expanding economic returns. Simultaneously many museums are part of a cultural sector with diminished public funding and increased competition for the existing financing. Against this background this book questions: ‘When the budget is tight whose heritage counts most?’ It considers museums as arenas for heritage politics in action on the local national and international levels as well as at the institutional level. Hip Heritage will appeal to scholars and students engaged in the study of ethnology heritage museum studies marketing leisure and tourism public folklore and sociology. | Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets

GBP 130.00
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Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis sociology criminology anthropology osteology and cultural studies to read a variety of types of artefacts from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter’s founding vision from historical perspectives and asks how did we get here from then? | Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

GBP 130.00
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Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering

Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering

Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering Second Edition presents the history and basics of rocket science and examines design experimentation testing and applications. Exploring how rockets work the book covers the concepts of thrust momentum impulse and the rocket equation along with the rocket engine its components and the physics involved in the generation of the propulsive force. The text also presents several different types of rocket engines and discusses the testing of rocket components subsystems systems and complete products. The final chapter stresses the importance for rocket scientists and engineers to creatively deal with the complexities of rocketry.

GBP 99.99
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Operations Management and Data Analytics Modelling Economic Crises Perspective

Operations Management and Data Analytics Modelling Economic Crises Perspective

Operations Management and Data Analytics Modelling: Economic Crises Perspective addresses real operation management problems in thrust areas like the healthcare and energy management sectors and Industry 4. 0. It discusses recent advances and trends in developing data-driven operation management-based methodologies big data analysis application of computers in industrial engineering optimization techniques development of decision support systems for industrial operation the role of a multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach in operation management fuzzy set theory-based operation management modelling and Lean Six Sigma. Features Discusses the importance of data analytics in industrial operations to improve economy Provides step-by-step implementation of operation management models to identify best practices Covers in-depth analysis using data-based operation management tools and techniques Discusses mathematical modelling for novel operation management models to solve industrial problems This book is aimed at graduate students and professionals in the field of industrial and production engineering mechanical engineering and materials science. | Operations Management and Data Analytics Modelling Economic Crises Perspective

GBP 99.99
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Politics and the Airlines

Politics and the Airlines

First Published in 1965 Politics and the Airlines looks into the making of airline policy in five countries Australia Britain Canada India and the United States. It shows the part played by political parties ministers government departments regulatory bodies and the boards of management of airlines themselves. In four of the countries the major airlines are publicly owned and have been involved in the cut and thrust of political controversy between enthusiasts for public enterprise and their opponents. In those countries where publicly owned and privately owned airlines compete the politics of the airlines industry are particularly interesting. Dr Corbett’s study of these mixed regulated airlines industries deal with the subject in a new way and presents a general analysis. His analysis could equally well be applied to other industries which are at present constructed along the same lines. The discussion is presented against a background of the history of a fascinating industry and Dr Corbett maintains that the advantage of this form of industry lies in its political efficiency as much as in its attractions to consumers and employees. This is a must read for those interested in the history of aviation industry public policy and public administration.

GBP 105.00
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Data Science for Effective Healthcare Systems

Data Science for Effective Healthcare Systems

Data Science for Effective Healthcare Systems has a prime focus on the importance of data science in the healthcare domain. Various applications of data science in the health care domain have been studied to find possible solutions. In this period of COVID-19 pandemic data science and allied areas plays a vital role to deal with various aspect of health care. Image processing detection & prevention from COVID-19 virus drug discovery early prediction and prevention of diseases are some thrust areas where data science has proven to be indispensable. Key Features: The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics including: Big Data Analytics Applications & Challenges in Healthcare Descriptive Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep Learning and IoT in Healthcare Data Science in Covid-19 Diabetes Coronary Heart Diseases Breast Cancer Brain Tumor The aim of this book is also to provide the future scope of these technologies in the health care domain. Last but not the least this book will surely benefit research scholar persons associated with healthcare faculty research organizations and students to get insights into these emerging technologies in the healthcare domain.

GBP 110.00
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Introduction to Mechanism Design with Computer Applications

Introduction to Mechanism Design with Computer Applications

Introduction to Mechanism Design: with Computer Applications provides an updated approach to undergraduate Mechanism Design and Kinematics courses/modules for engineering students. The use of web-based simulations solid modeling and software such as MATLAB and Excel is employed to link the design process with the latest software tools for the design and analysis of mechanisms and machines. While a mechanical engineer might brainstorm with a pencil and sketch pad the final result is developed and communicated through CAD and computational visualizations. This modern approach to mechanical design processes has not been fully integrated in most books as it is in this new text. | Introduction to Mechanism Design with Computer Applications

GBP 125.00
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The Role of Subject Knowledge in the Early Years of Schooling

The Role of Subject Knowledge in the Early Years of Schooling

Originally published in 1994 the aim of the authors was to provide a comprehensive introduction to recent advances in research which had been made in learning and teaching in the early years of schooling at the time. Emphasis is placed on how subject knowledge is constructed or acquired and the organization of teaching to promote the learner’s active construction of meaning through the integration of new knowledge with existing understanding. The National Curriculum is founded in subject knowledge though little examination appears to have been made of this in terms of how subject matter is transformed into the content of teaching that young children can understand. It this remains for the teacher to develop instruction through the creation of a curriculum content and sequence which both reflects and advances the structure of existing forms of representation problem-solving and knowledge which the child brings to the school. The whole thrust of the book challenges the conventional early years ideology with its emphasis on child-centred concrete and empirical approaches to learning with a view of teaching which is concerned with making sense of children’s understanding and allowing their active construction of knowledge and information-processing to develop expertise in context. | The Role of Subject Knowledge in the Early Years of Schooling

GBP 90.00
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Iran under Ahmadinejad The Politics of Confrontation

Iran under Ahmadinejad The Politics of Confrontation

The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the summer of 2005 thrust Iran into the international limelight in a way that few would have predicted. Robust confrontational and given to bombastic rhetoric Ahmadinejad has drawn condemnation from the West and praise from the Middle Eastern street in almost equal measure. This Paper looks at the details of his political rise and assesses his presidency to date within the context of the dynamics of Iranian politics. Examining the key themes of his presidency it assesses the effectiveness of his policies and analyzes his populist approach in particular his use of nationalism and the cult of the Twelfth Imam. The author argues that Ahmadinejad far from retrenching the conservative values of the early revolution is very much a product of the social and political changes which have occurred since the end of the Iran Iraq War; that his populism in both politics and economics along with the maintenance of a confrontational posture abroad represents an ad hoc and somewhat incoherent attempt to disguise the growing contradictions which afflict the Islamic Republic and the conservative vision of an unaccountable Islamic autocracy in the face of growing dissatisfaction especially among key sections of thete. | Iran under Ahmadinejad The Politics of Confrontation

GBP 160.00
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Advances in Phytonanotechnology for Treatment of Various Diseases

Advances in Phytonanotechnology for Treatment of Various Diseases

Several plant bioactives or plant-derived therapeutic molecules have been used against life-threatening diseases and their nanoparticle-mediated delivery greatly improves therapeutic efficacy. Advances in Phytonanotechnology for Treatment of Various Diseases aims to describe past and recent advances achieved in the field of phytonanotechnology. The chapters of this book provide thorough knowledge of medicinal plants plant bioactives plant extract-based nanoparticle synthesis delivery of plant bioactives through nanoparticles and their therapeutic activity against life-threatening diseases. This book focuses on the therapeutic activity of phytocomponents present in plants from diverse families genera and species. The book also covers future aspects and challenges present in phytonanotechnology for curing human diseases. This book fulfils the thrust of researchers working in this field which further encourages them to make new discoveries in this area and support the development of effective nanoparticle-mediated plant bioactive delivery platforms for treating human diseases. Key Features Provides information on medicinal plants and plant bioactives used in the treatment of various life-threatening diseases Covers green synthesis of nanoparticles as well as their toxicological and biological effects Explores various nanocarriers routinely used in the delivery of plant bioactives and their efficacy for future drug delivery Envisages future opportunities challenges and implementation made in phytonanotechnology-based treatment of human diseases

GBP 115.00
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The Development of Mind

The Development of Mind

The experimental and highly regarded Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University was endowed in the late nineteenth century. Over the years participants have including many leading representatives of religion science and philosophy. This series has as its subject The Development of Mind. First published in 1972 the series continues to attract widespread interest. In this volume contributors argue about the mind from diverse analytical standpoints. The focus of the series remains the relationship between religion science and philosophy. This volume attempts to achieve a comprehensive view of the subject of mind. The mental development of children in the light of modern psychology is discussed and the distinction between how and why questions is put forward with clarity. The development of mind is further contrasted with the evolution of embryos in the young. The mind is considered as a capacity for intellectual activity and as a multi-purpose program. Goal-directed behavior and language development are given importance and issues of cosmic purpose and the how and why of evolution are never far from the surface of the argument. The lecturers know their opposition and their positions and the cut-and-thrust of the discussion has much acumen and wit to it. Issues ranging from the impact of mind on theories of religion causation and rational will are examined in an informal yet compelling manner.

GBP 130.00
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Kinderculture The Corporate Construction of Childhood

Kinderculture The Corporate Construction of Childhood

America is a corporatized society defined by a culture of consumerism and the youth market is one of the groups that corporations target most. By marketing directly to children through television movies radio video games toys books and fast food advertisers have produced a 'kinderculture'. In this eye-opening book editor Shirley R. Steinberg reveals the profound impact that our purchasing-obsessed culture has on our children and argues that the experience of childhood has been reshaped into something that is prefabricated. Analyzing the pervasive influence of these corporate productions top experts in the fields of education sociology communications and cultural studies contribute incisive essays that students parents educators and general readers will find insightful and entertaining. Including seven new chapters this third edition is thoroughly updated with examinations of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of today's children including Twilight True Blood and vampires hip hop Hannah Montana Disney and others. | Kinderculture The Corporate Construction of Childhood

GBP 130.00
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The Pulse of Sense Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy

The Pulse of Sense Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy

This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work along four major themes of Nancy’s thought: sense experience existence and Christianity. In doing so the volume seeks to remind readers that Nancy’s sens has many meanings in French: aside from those that easily carry over into English i. e. everything to do with meaning and the senses; it also includes the way they are conducted the direction they take the thrust or pulse in which the circulation of sense exists. Faithful to this plural understanding of sens the writings collected here aim to join Jean-Luc Nancy in the process of making-sense that animates his thinking rather than to deliver a definitive summary of his position on any given issue. They are conceived of as notes along the way documenting encounters as moments of (re)direction and recording the pulse of sense that animates them. In that spirit Nancy himself has provided each contribution with an echo in which he in turn responds to each author and thereby continues their mutual encounter. Aside from these echoes this volume includes an original essay in which Nancy reflects upon the international trajectory of his thinking; a trajectory that is to be and undoubtedly will be continued in many different directions across and around the world. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki. | The Pulse of Sense Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy

GBP 130.00
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Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society

Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society

Highlighting diverse types of market places and merchants this book situates the commercial scenario of early India (up to c. ad 1300) in the overall agrarian material milieu of the subcontinent. The book questions the stereotypical narrative of early Indian trade as exchanges in small quantity exotic portable luxury items and strongly argues for the significance of trade in relatively inexpensive bulk commodities – including agrarian/floral products – at local and regional levels and also in long distance trade. That staple items had salience in the sea-borne trade of early India figures prominently in this book which points out that commercial exchanges touched the everyday life of a variety of people. A major feature of this work is the conspicuous thrust on and attention to the sea-borne commerce in the subcontinent. The history of Indic seafaring in the Indian Ocean finds a prominent place in this book pointing out the braided histories of overland and maritime networks in the subcontinent. In addition to three specific chapters on the maritime profile of early Bengal the third edition of Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society offers two new chapters (14 and 15) on the commercial scenario of Gujarat dealing respectively with an organization of merchants during the early sixth century ad and with the long-term linkages between money-circulation and overseas trade in Gujarat c. ad 500-1500). A new preface to the Third Edition discusses the emerging historiographical issues in the history of trade in early India. Rich in the interrogation of a wide variety of primary sources the book analyses the changing perspectives on early Indian trade by taking into account the current literature on the subject.

GBP 130.00
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Families

Families

In 'Families' Jane Howard informally visits many dozens of families and tries to discover what makes the best ones work so well. Families are not dying she finds although they are evolving in various ways. From the tightest-knit nuclear family or extended clan to the most fragile new commune the family in one guise or another remains everybody's most basic hold on reality. We may run away from our families as many do but no sooner do we escape than we find another one often very much like it. Sympathetically with immense thrust she crosses the continent to discover families' myths jokes and rituals. She leafs through their scrapbooks sits on their porches and takes part when she can in their feasts and celebrations. She talks to a father of eighteen several double first cousins stepchildren multiple godmothers an honorary relative of an Indian tribe and a nine-year-old boy who has no family but his mother. She sits with a matriarch on the front stoop of a ghetto house goes camping with a family in Mexico has Thanksgiving with another in Iowa and orders pizza with a Greek clan in Massachusetts. Howard reports on visits to conventional Southern and Jewish households and to innovative ones whose members lacking a common history plan on building common futures as if water were after all as thick as blood. She examines the notion that there are ways and ways of achieving kinship of which birth and marriage are only the most obvious. Millions of clans and families all over the United States continue to celebrate quarrel disband reunite and endure. Jane Howard makes us realize how our lives are interwoven both with the families we are born into and with those we invent as we go through life. 'Families' is compassionate provocative and profound. The paperback edition of this important work will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the study of familial bonds particularly sociologists anthropologists and psychologists.

GBP 110.00
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Coiled Tubing and Other Stimulation Techniques Formation Damage Well Stimulation Techniques for Production Enhancement

Coiled Tubing and Other Stimulation Techniques Formation Damage Well Stimulation Techniques for Production Enhancement

Good engineers never stop looking for opportunities to improve the performance of their production systems. Performance enhancement methods are always carefully examined and production data is analyzed in order to identify determining factors affecting performance. The two main activities of the production engineer in the petroleum and related industries are reservoir stimulation and artificial lift. The classic solution to maximizing a well's productivity is to stimulate it. The basis for selecting stimulation candidates should be a review of the well's actual and theoretical IPR. Low permeability wells often need fracturing on initial completion. In low permeability zones additional post stimulation production can be significant to the economics however the production engineer needs to make management aware of the true long term potential or else overly optimistic projections can easily be made. The main purpose of stimulation is to enhance the property value by the faster delivery of the petroleum fluid and/or to increase ultimate economic recovery. The aim of reservoir stimulation is to bypass near-wellbore damage and return a well to its “natural” productivity / injectivity to extend a conductive path deep into a formation and thus increase productivity beyond the natural level and to produce hydrocarbon from tight formation. The importance of reservoir stimulation is increasing due to following reasons: • Hydrocarbon fields in their mid-life• Production in these fields are in declining trend• The thrust area: Enhancement of productionHence to improve productivity of the well matrix stimulation and hydraulic fracturing are intended to remedy or even improve the natural connection of the wellbore with the reservoir which could delay the need for artificial lift. This book presents procedures taken in the Oil & Gas Industry for identifying well problems and it suggests means of solving problems with the help of the Coil Tube unit which is used for improving well productivity and techniques like Acidizing and Hydraulic Fracturing. | Coiled Tubing and Other Stimulation Techniques Formation Damage Well Stimulation Techniques for Production Enhancement

GBP 94.99
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One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural aesthetic and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short discrete and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks and spanning nearly five decades these essays zigzag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are detours through psychedelic rock Afro-pop Latin pop glam rock heavy metal punk postpunk adult contemporary rock techno hip-hop and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of individual songs these essays all expand far beyond the track itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively they show the undiminished power of the individual pop song both as distillations of important flashpoints and in their afterlives as ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good capital help us frame these stories a fact that should surprise no one given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism established in the twentieth century. At the root readers will find here a history of pop with unexpected plot twists colorful protagonists and fitting denouements. | One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

GBP 130.00
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Dress Codes Meanings And Messages In American Culture

Dress Codes Meanings And Messages In American Culture

Rich with illustrations this revised and updated second edition of Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture. Presented here is an up-to-date analysis of images of power and authority gender seduction (the sexy look the alluring look the glamorous look the vulnerable look) wealth and beauty youth and health and leisure and political hierarchy. Taken together the chapters offer to the student and the general reader a complete semiotics of clothing in a form that is highly readable very entertaining and thoroughly informative. The illustrations provide fascinating glimpses into the history of American fashion and clothing-along with their antecedents in Europe-as well as a fine collection of images from the more familiar world of contemporary America. Rubinstein has identified six distinct categories of dress in American society upon which Dress Codes is based. Clothing signs were instituted by those in authority have one meaning indicate behavior and are required attire (police uniforms or the clothing of ministers and priests); ?clothing symbols on the other hand reflect the achievement of cultural values?wealth beauty you and health. The wearing of clothing symbols?designer clothing or jewelry?may have several meanings; '`'clothing tie-signs ? which are specific types of clothing that indicate membership in a community outside mainstream culture (Hasidic Amish or Hare Krishna attire). They were instituted by those in authority have one meaning they indicate expected behavior and are required attire; ?clothing tie symbols? emanate from hopes fears and dreams of particular groups. They include trendy styles such as hip-hop hippie and gothic. Another category ?contemporary fashion ? reflects consumer sentiments and the political and economic forces of the period. ?Personal dress ? refers to the I component we bring in when dressing the public self (bowtie dramatic or artistic at | Dress Codes Meanings And Messages In American Culture

GBP 175.00
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Edible Food Packaging with Natural Hydrocolloids and Active Agents

Edible Food Packaging with Natural Hydrocolloids and Active Agents

The aim of this book is to show the potential of natural hydrocolloids and active agents to develop sustainable edible packaging materials for food preservation. For this the current and future sources of natural hydrocolloids have been reviewed along with their extraction methods impact on health and ability to form different packaging such as film casing coating mat pad etc. Similarly natural active compounds were evaluated carefully considering their sources extraction methods regulatory status and compatibility with edible packaging. The book emphasizes the recent developments in methods strategies and technologies employed to enhance the performance of antimicrobial antioxidant and bioactive packaging. The basic testing methods used to evaluate antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of edible packaging in model media and food were discussed and carefully selected example active edible packaging applications for different food categories were provided with critical details such as the thin balance between effectiveness of packaging and sensory properties of food. As such it helps in understanding necessary parameters in designing an effective active edible packaging that is applicable to the target food category. Moreover readers are primed for the first time on how to develop a fully natural antimicrobial antioxidant or bioactive edible food packaging. This book is different from most of the similar books' avail as it provides neither methodologies about classical active packaging based on chemicals and fossil polymeric films nor is it a thorough collection of different food packaging applications. It is also not a book that concentrates on physicochemical characterization methods and engineering aspects of packaging. Instead this is a book that provides systematic knowledge about key methods of evaluating natural resources agro-industrial wastes and by-products for development of edible packaging and concentrates on concepts strategies technologies and applications of active edible packaging based solely on natural components. It is designed to share both positive and negative experiences in an emerging field that is expected to play a central role in improving food safety and quality human health and environmentally friendly practices. | Edible Food Packaging with Natural Hydrocolloids and Active Agents

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